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P-44<br />
Transcriptomic characteristics of an Oriental cultivar of Vitis vinifera ‘Koshu’<br />
N. Goto-Yamamoto*, D. Kamioka, M. Numata<br />
National Research Institute of Brewing, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan<br />
*Corresponding author: gotoh_n@nrib.go.jp<br />
Our previous studies have shown that ‘Koshu’, a native grape cultivar <strong>and</strong> an important whitewine<br />
grape in Japan, belongs to the Oriental cultivars of Vitis vinifera. ‘Koshu’ is well adapted to<br />
the humid summer in Japan, <strong>and</strong> shows higher disease resistance than Occidental cultivars. A<br />
hybridization experiment using biotin-labeled genomic DNA fragments to a Vitis vinifera<br />
GeneChip showed that the hybridization intensities of genomic DNA of ‘Koshu’ <strong>and</strong> those of<br />
Occidental cultivars (‘Cabernet Sauvignon’, ‘Pinot noir’, <strong>and</strong> ‘Chardonnay’) showed high<br />
correlation <strong>with</strong> a small number (about 40 out of 16,000 probe sets) of exceptions. This result<br />
showed that Vitis vinifera GeneChip is also useful for transcriptomic analysis of ‘Koshu’, even<br />
though major probe sets were designed from the EST data of Occidental cultivars, mainly<br />
‘Cabernet Sauvignon’ <strong>and</strong> ‘Chardonnay’. Transcriptomic analysis of berry skins of ‘Koshu’<br />
during maturation (three weeks after veraison) showed that the top 30 <strong>and</strong> 200 highly hybridized<br />
probe sets contained 12 <strong>and</strong> 19 grape ripening induced proteins (GRIPs), respectively, out of 27<br />
GRIPs on the GeneChip, which is a similar tendency to that of ‘Chardonnay’. However, the<br />
comparison of the hybridization intensities of the berry skins of ‘Koshu’ <strong>and</strong> ‘Chardonnay’ from<br />
before the veraison stage to the harvest stage showed that the difference between ‘Koshu’ <strong>and</strong><br />
‘Chardonnay’ at the same stage is larger than that between the before-veraison stage <strong>and</strong> the<br />
harvest stage of the same cultivar. The berry skin of ‘Koshu’ highly expressed disease-resistance<br />
genes, e.g., Fiber protein Fb 19, PR-4 type protein, Class IV Chitinase, in addition to flavonoid<br />
pathway genes (‘Koshu’ accumulates a small amount of anthocyanin in the berry skin) <strong>and</strong><br />
unclassified proteins, compared <strong>with</strong> ‘Chardonnay’. Thus, these transcriptomic characteristics of<br />
‘Koshu’ are possibly one reason for the disease resistance <strong>and</strong> other characteristics of ‘Koshu’.<br />
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